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10 Ways to Tap Into Your Inner Spiritual Power

Work at creating channels for the inner spirituality within you to flow outwards. This will add to your charisma and make you a lot more attractive. It will also give your spoken words enhanced power. The special energy unleashed will also work at dispelling all negativities.

1ENGAGE YOUR INNER SPIRITUALMeditate daily to gain inner awareness. Close your eyes to shut out distractions, breathe normally, stay relaxed and then direct your mind to go deep inside yourself. Do this for a few moments each day until you become familiar with the exercise. It will soon help you rest your mind, increase your clarity of thinking, and open the inner depths of your own thought processes to you.

2UNLOCK INNER WISDOM WITH PURE MOTIVATIONSet yourself simple goals and establish the correct motivation for becoming spiritual. It must pure and devoid of hidden negative agenda. The key to using mental power is to be able to establish and maintain this purity, so always check your motives before you begin.

3THINK RICH! DISCARD POVERTY PROGRAMMINGYou must guard strongly against poverty programming. Stop worrying about a rainy day. People who are generous are programming themselves for a life of prosperity. Don’t let simple things such as saving money on electricity take over your life. The more relaxed you are about money, and everything that is connected with spending, the more likely you are to make your finances grow. Feng shui to attract wealth rarely works well for stingy people with closed minds. It works beautifully for people who are expansive and generous. Adjust your attitudes as well as your motivations.

4VISUALIZE & ACTUALIZE - ACCESSING YOUR INNER SUBCONSCIOUSUsing mental visualizations to bring power to your intentions lies in using the mind to create pictures that have a canny way of becoming reality. Think of all the outcomes you are wishing for as you feng shui the rooms of your home. It is this visualization that will cause you to actualize all your wishes into reality.5CLEAR YOUR INNER CHANNELS OF ENERGYSpend ten minutes each day mentally going through the rooms of your house in which you live and spend time. Meditate on your space and imagine a gust of fresh air sweeping away the cobwebs and the clutter that tends to stick in the mind after a hard day’s work. Try to create a situation in which you actually feel a gush of fresh cold air so that you can recreate its refreshing feeling in your mind.

6STIMULATE THE MIND TO DREAMEncourage your subconscious mind to dream and to retain the memories of your dreaming by placing “kusha grass” underneath your pillow. Over time, your dreams will become more and more auspicious. Pleasant dreams always lead to happy outcomes.

7CREATE MENTAL MAGICUnlocking mental magic lies in your ability to focus your mind on a goal and to visualize yourself achieving that goal. Visualize successful scenarios for yourself and your family, and combine these mental exercises with good physical feng shui in the home.

8USE WHITE LIGHT MEDITATION TO COCOON YOUR HOMECreate a mental picture of a gentle white light embracing your home each night just before you go to sleep. By doing this, you are creating protection for everyone living in your home. If you make this visualization part of your nightly routine, you will over time also be strengthening your mind’s ability to focus.

9SUPPLEMENT YOUR FENG SHUI WITH POSITIVE EXPECTATIONSEvery morning, while you are still in the half-asleep mode, focus your mind on the happiness of waking up to a brand new day, alive and well. Focus on the positive outcomes you would like to achieve today. Visualize only good news coming to you, and only good people entering your life. This way, only good results will come from all your actions.

10TAP THE POWER WITHIN YOURegularly activate for good luck by developing the habit of practising mental feng shui each day. Walk through the rooms of your home and around your garden and think about what you would like to change, replace or improve. Daily exercises in awareness help to stimulate new ideas that will allow you to enhance your home’s energy. By increasing your awareness of your home, you are enhancing it with the vital essence of your own energy.

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